Cloud & The Fuzzy Math of Shadow IT
July 11, 2014
Grazed from DarkReading. Author: Krishna Narayanaswamy.
Organizations are adopting the cloud in a big way. Today, representing about 23% of IT spend, cloud computing has accelerated because it allows people to get their jobs done more quickly, more easily, and more flexibly than they can using traditional computing tools. Set to account for 60% of cloud services in 2017, software-as-a-service has proliferated in enterprises and has now reached a tipping point.
IT has responsibility for some cloud apps. Most IT departments I’ve talked to say they have responsibility for a handful of cloud deployments, maybe 10 at most, and further estimate that they have 40-50 total apps running per organization. In reality, they have an average of 461 cloud apps, according to our latest Cloud Report, an aggregated, anonymized measure of cloud app usage from the Netskope Active Platform…
This isn’t just individuals using apps like Dropbox and Twitter. It’s that too. But it’s whole lines of business using apps, and not just a few of them. It’s Workday, SuccessFactors, Netsuite, Zendesk, Marketo, and GitHub. It’s every line of business, department, and workgroup. A more recent report shows an average of 47 cloud marketing, 41 HR, 32 collaboration, 27 storage, and 27 finance and accounting apps per enterprise. Even our four person marketing team at Netskope uses 50 cloud apps…
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